Postsecondary Education

Students
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Navigating College and Career Readiness in a Time of Uncertainty
Melanie A. Zaber, Laura S. Hamilton @HamiltonLauraS
Mar 26, 2020
The RAND Blog
How we respond to the COVID-19 pandemic today will likely have longer-term effects. This means that we need to think about people who are actively preparing for that future: high school students looking to enter college and careers.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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COVID-19 and the Economy, America's Blood Supply, 10 Years of the ACA: RAND Weekly Recap
Mar 27, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on COVID-19 and the economy, strengthening the U.S. blood supply, 10 years of the Affordable Care Act, and more.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Experts Discuss COVID-19: RAND Weekly Recap
Mar 20, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on COVID-19, how the United States is responding to the coronavirus outbreak, the spread of misinformation during this time, and more.
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Postsecondary Education
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Coronavirus Forces Colleges Online. Will Learning Ever Be the Same?
Charles A. Goldman, Rita Karam
Mar 16, 2020
Fox News Channel
Colleges and universities have turned to online courses to help slow the spread of COVID-19. But distance learning may also hold promise as a long-term strategy to help make higher education more accessible and affordable.
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Opioids
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Synthetic Opioids, Mass Shootings, Prison Education: RAND Weekly Recap
Aug 30, 2019
This weekly recap looks at fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, how to address mass shootings, higher education in prison, and more.
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United States
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RAND's Summer Reading List for Congress
Aug 5, 2019
For busy staff, August's respite from back-to-back meetings, hearing preparation, and late votes is hard-earned. The summer recess also provides an opportunity to get ahead of issues that will resurface in the fall. To that end, we have compiled recent RAND research on topics likely to top the congressional agenda come September.
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Workforce Development
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How Work-Based Learning Can Bring Employers and Students Together
Monica Mean, Gabriella C. Gonzalez @GabCGonzalez
Jul 24, 2019
The RAND Blog
Work-based learning experiences help college grads better prepare for work. WBL programs often serve as a workforce pipeline for companies. WBL is also successful at the K–12 level and at
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Prisoner Reentry
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North Carolina Program Helps Former Prisoners Make It on the Outside
Lois M. Davis @LoisMDavis, Michelle C. Tolbert
Jul 11, 2019
The News & Observer
To avoid the all-too-common fate of ending up back in prison, incarcerated adults need skills and credentials they typically don't have. Helping them overcome the challenges of reentry is a net gain for them and for the communities to which they return.
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Workforce Development
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How Community Colleges Can Establish Better Partnerships with Employers
Rita Karam
Jun 6, 2019
The RAND Blog
Career and technical education programs give students a chance to engage in learning relevant to their chosen fields and apply immediately for jobs. A strategic vision of collaboration between industry and community colleges can benefit all parties.
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College-Bound Students
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Dual Enrollment for High Schoolers Can Expand Access to College—with Some Caveats
Fatih Unlu, Julie Edmunds
Jun 6, 2019
The RAND Blog
Targeted federal investments in high school and college dual enrollment programs can boost postsecondary access for students currently underrepresented in postsecondary education. But thoughtful implementation could be key to ensuring those students are successful in college.
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Postsecondary Education
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Federal Policy Might Encourage Innovation to Cut the Cost of College
Charles A. Goldman
Jun 5, 2019
The RAND Blog
A big factor in the rise of college costs is the traditional seat-time model requiring undergraduate students to spend a specified amount of time in classrooms, frequently with doctorally qualified faculty. But there are alternative models that could enable colleges and universities to offer degrees more efficiently and affordably.
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Postsecondary Education
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Income Share Agreements: What's Risky, What's Promising, and What We Still Need to Know
Melanie A. Zaber, Kathryn A. Edwards
Jun 5, 2019
The RAND Blog
While policymakers debate options to address college affordability and the nation's mounting student loan debt, an alternative education financing model has been gaining ground in a handful of schools and state legislatures: the income share agreement. While terms vary from institution to institution, they are all based on the same premise: The more income a graduate makes, the more they will pay back.
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Postsecondary Education
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Iran, Prison College Programs, Fentanyl: RAND Weekly Recap
May 24, 2019
This weekly recap focuses on Iran's nonstate partners, lessons from a prison college program, what a fentanyl ban in China means for the U.S. opioid crisis, and more.
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Postsecondary Education
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Addressing the College Completion Problem
Lindsay Daugherty
May 9, 2019
The RAND Blog
More than half of students who enter college end up dropping out without ever completing a degree or certificate. Time and money are wasted without the benefits of a degree. While colleges are experimenting with novel techniques to boost completion rates, strategic support from the federal government could further these efforts.
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Peacekeeping and Stability Operations
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Federal Workers, Afghanistan, Sectarianism: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 18, 2019
This weekly recap focuses on the critical roles of federal workers, withdrawing from Afghanistan, countering sectarianism in the Middle East, and more.
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Postsecondary Education
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Pardee RAND Reimagines the Future of Public Policy Problem Solving
Susan L. Marquis @susanlmarquis
Jan 7, 2019
The Pardee RAND Graduate School is taking a new approach to public policy education. Three new streams of study and action will better align with today's policy needs. Faculty and students will shift the focus from coming up with solutions to actually implementing them.
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If people can come together around COVID-19, and all developments are showing that they can, then perhaps they can be equally innovative in tackling many of the more silent 'COVIDs' of the time—i.e., the less immediately impactful but equally urgent and important challenges associated with aging and frailty, mental health, cancer, comorbidities, and health inequalities as just some examples.

Sonja Marjanovic

Senior Research Leader and Head of THIS Institute-RAND Europe partnership

Source: The RAND Blog

The price to be paid for not doing everything possible to impede the spread of the pandemic in terms of readiness and letting soldiers (along with their families and any other civilians with whom they interact) get sick could be significant.

Michael Shurkin

Senior Political Scientist

Source: War on the Rocks

The Defense Industrial Base Needs a Cyber Protection Program

Supporting Students' College and Career Pathways: Teacher and Principal Perspectives

Online Doesn't Have to Mean Impersonal

Amidst a Pandemic, a Mental Health Crisis May Be Looming

The Economic Impacts of COVID-19

The Policy Currents Podcast

Helping Children Cope with Trauma: A School-Based Intervention

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Addressing the Invisible Wounds of War

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

Postsecondary Education

Navigating College and Career Readiness in a Time of Uncertainty

COVID-19 and the Economy, America's Blood Supply, 10 Years of the ACA: RAND Weekly Recap

Experts Discuss COVID-19: RAND Weekly Recap

Coronavirus Forces Colleges Online. Will Learning Ever Be the Same?

Synthetic Opioids, Mass Shootings, Prison Education: RAND Weekly Recap

RAND's Summer Reading List for Congress

How Work-Based Learning Can Bring Employers and Students Together

North Carolina Program Helps Former Prisoners Make It on the Outside

How Community Colleges Can Establish Better Partnerships with Employers

Dual Enrollment for High Schoolers Can Expand Access to College—with Some Caveats

Federal Policy Might Encourage Innovation to Cut the Cost of College

Income Share Agreements: What's Risky, What's Promising, and What We Still Need to Know

Iran, Prison College Programs, Fentanyl: RAND Weekly Recap

Addressing the College Completion Problem

Federal Workers, Afghanistan, Sectarianism: RAND Weekly Recap

Pardee RAND Reimagines the Future of Public Policy Problem Solving

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